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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96885	Christ-mas day, the old heathens feasting day, in honour to Saturn their idol-god. The Papists massing day. The prophane mans ranting day. The superstitious mans idol day. The multitudes idle day. Whereon, because they cannot do nothing: they do worse then nothing. Satans, that adversaries working-day. The true Christian mans fasting-day. Taking to heart, the heathenish customes, Popish superstitions, ranting fashions, fearful provocations, horrible abhominations committed against the Lord, and His Christ, on that day, and days following.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3482; Thomason E868_3; ESTC R207652	24,177	32

CHRIST-MAS DAY The old Heathens feasting Day in honour to Saturn their Idol-God The Papists Massing Day The Prophane mans Ranting Day The Superstitious mans Idol Day The Multitudes Idle Day Whereon because they cannot do Nothing They do worse then Nothing Satans That Adversaries working-Working-Day The true Christian Mans fasting-Fasting-Day Taking to Heart the Heathenish Customes Popish Superstitions Ranting Fashions Fearful Provocations Horrible Abhominations committed against the Lord and His Christ on that Day and Days following Ezek. 11. 12. Ye have done after the manner of the Heathen Jer. 7. 31. Which I commanded not neither came it into my heart Gal. 4. 10. 11. Ye observe days I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain Hos 2. 17. compared with Exod. 23. 13. Deut. 12. 3. I will take away the Names of Baalim out of her mouth and they shall no more be remembred by their name London Printed for Henry Cripps and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes-Head-Alley neer Lumbard Street 1656. TO THE READER WE must give out reason though haply you may guesse at it why we put the third Section first Please you to consult the Epistle to the Reverend Ministers there you will find an account of our business and Method of our processe therein and that this of Christmass for we must speak that we may be understood is the third part of enjoyned task But considering that Day is now approaching whereon the God of this world as a world of men have made him and do now as God honour him will be together with the Belly another God of the same make most studiously served with a service well becomming such Gods Riotting and Drunkenness Chambering and Wantonness considering this time as we said together with thy good now and hereafter we have offered this to thee first least you should run with the multitude that keep Holy-day into all excess of riot whereunto you will feel your selfe driven by a cunning Satan within and another without if a glorious Arm interpose not For so it must needs be where two Gods are served The onely True One is blaspheamed and abhorred Considering we say all this we have done as you see desiring heartily it may be a word well Timed spoken in season and set as upon the Wheel Prov. 15. 23. 25. 11. 12. It is not proper for us now to Charge or to Counsel But wo to that man that will not hear the Charge of the Lord and Counsel from his mouth for so saith the Lord. Therfore indeed of that wo let us pray That we may hear this charged upon us by truely learned and Godly Ministers as deeply as Paul chargeth Timothy upon another account 1. 5. 2. 11. we charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ the Elect Angels That ye enquire into the mind of Christ in reference to the observation of those dayes we very ignorantly and then as boldly if not presumptiously call the Day of his Nativity and Circumcision-No more Then secondly that we hearken what God saith by the said Messengers of the Churches and glory of Christ and as dear children be followers of them as they follow Christ and those truely called Christians who thorow faith and patience inherit the promises And for other guides follow them as they lead to Christ and be commanded by them as they command for him For there is One and but One a Leader Commander for his people Isa 55. 4. He that rules over men should be just and command in the Lord But be that at his peril Look we well to this that we obey in the Lord. The greatest Rulers in the world then much more our petty Rulers in our Towns we will go no higher that we may not out compass our knowledge O how crosse and contrary they are and as they are they run some of them clean crosse to that Onely Leader and Commander stretching out the hand against God and strengthning themselves against the Almighty they run upon him Some yea too many of them even on his neck upon the thick Bosses of his bucklers So Job describes a wicked man in his natural course ch 15. 25. 26. Even so our Rulers in some of our Towns do what they do in Cities we enquire not But we were saying the greatest Rulers in the World are but Rules ruled Jesus Christ alone is the Rule Ruling Beware of him and obey his voice provoke him not for he will not pardon your transgressions for my Name is in him saith the Lord Exod. 23. 21. If you shall observe this with all observation you shall do well Farewel SECT III. The Third Query is whether the Day commonly called Christmas-Day is to be kept holy The Negative That it is not to be kept holy is under our Maintenance CHAP. I. WE would promise some things here also very briefly Sect. 1. First to the Reader in common then to the Reverend Minister in special that enjoyned this Task To the Reader That he may be cleared in the progress of our enjoyned and undertaken sa●k which was To hold this forth from sacred Scripture That supp●sing for we may suppose that of which we make no question Christmas-Day is not to be kept holy A godly Minister ought to teach his people so and trouble them ab●ut it and heat them off from that observation whereunto they will feel themselves driven by a cursed thing within them Indeed we hold to this That he ought and must drive his p●ople as he can from the observation of those Times which have not the impression and stamp of God upon them But this we shall n●t meddle with here ●eferring it to its proper place the fift Section This onely as we said falls under our maintenance here That the Day is not to be kept holy And if we are able to make good this Negitive then you may think we have causam facilem no hard task in our hand to cleer this from Scripture That a godly Minist●r must tell his people so as aforesaid and shall we doubt not through Divine Assistance be fully cleered hereafter in the progress of our undertaken task So much to thee Reader And nextly to your self Sir Before we enter upon the debate Sect. 2. and to maintain our undertaking we hold it our duty to cleer you as much as we can in this matter And where we cannot though we do what we can there we will leave you to God to cleer your self before him This we must speak out for your cleering That you did not honour this day while you were amongst us with a Sermon or any other service upon that day though importuned so to do as a sottish brutish people use to do That is all we can say for you that which you say now makes against you as we suppose and now falls under debate for you say That holy men have done it kept the day holy and have maintained their doings in

walked in the Temple c. Now as we conceive here is the very Hinge ●● the Argument from our Lords example observing that novel Feast for that is the force of the word is of the Argument Our Lord and Saviour observed that Feast a novel thing and meerly of mans institution Therefore may we observe the Feast of his Nativity Well It is not a day for mirth but rather in some respects of signing with breaking of the Loyns yet we cannot pass over this without a smile at least though we are serious for the truth and ridentem dicere vere quis negat so we say on and enquire into this farther we mean this Feast of Dedication that so we may try the strength of this H●●e whereon this Argument holds We read the Temple was Dedicated three times First by Solomon in the seventh Moneth 2 Kings 8. that was in the midst of Autum Then after the Temple was restored and built again by Nehemiah and his fellow-workmen It was Dedicated again by him the third day of the twelfth Neh. 12. 27. Moneth which falls out in our twelfth and first Moneths commonly called February and March It was a Festival time with them as we read but it held but that time we mean it was not Anniversary it was not observed the Year after neither by King Solomon nor by that Prince-like Ruler Nehemiah The third time after it was renewed and purged Dedicated by Judas Machabaeus in the Moneth Chisten which answers our tenth Moneth December therefore it was said in the Text And it was Winter It was ordered also that ●he Mac. 4. 59. Feast of Dedication be kept in its season from Year to Year by the space of eight days from the five and twentieth day of that Moneth called with us December Indeed to speak our mind here in passage onely and then to go on This their Feast and th●s your Feast we make bold to call it yours because you seem to own it and to hold for the observation of it falling out pat upon one day would make a wise man after the flesh as surely it doth mad upon that Idol-day to observe it as an holy-day and with more strict and solemn observation then he will or possibly can that onely Holy-Day which hath the stamp of the Lord upon it but of this anon That which is now to be done is to vindicate our Lord going up to that Feast And that in so doing it will not justifie us in our observation of that Festival Day the Church observes all over the Nation or the National Church there First then to justifie our Lords practise 〈◊〉 it needed ou● justification Sect. 3. This we say That our Lord did not observe the Feast but the season or opportu●●●● 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 good As Paul who followed him obs 〈…〉 day of Prince at Jerusalem and afterward ●● Ephes●● Acts 20. 16 Co● 16. 8. See Calvin upon the place There he knew he should find a grea 〈…〉 of people very observant of their ow● days which are devised of their own heart as Jeroboams Feast was and have their own s●a 〈…〉 on them His heart was upon his work the doing 〈…〉 will He did it as chearfully as we eat and drink 〈…〉 the seasons and all advantages to do good the manner of all that walk as he walked He went up to the Feast though of mans institution and as the advise is spragit manum some good might be done some seeds might take as he well knew that knew all things And though i● was winter yet he went up Be it fair or foul Sun-shine or rain Summer or Winter it hinders not a true Christian from doing his duty for he doth in desire and endeavour as Christ did It is natural to the new Creature the divine Nature so to do But now if it be replyed here as we think it will That a Minister is never like to find such a Concourse of people at his meeting place as he may do on that day And therefore if all advantages of doing good may and ought to be taken why may not a Minister preach a good may and ought to be taken why may not a Minister preach a good Sermon on that day and take his Warrant from his Lords practise going up to Jerusalem on that Feast day To this we would briefly reply these things Sect. 4. ¶ 1. It is not always safe to do what we read the Lord did though we may urge him for our example Our Lord went over the Sea on foot he could that made the Sea make the sea solid like the land to bear him up we must not do so unlesse we have a more then his Example his word too as Peter had COME Again the Lord Christ went into a chiefe Pharisees house to dinner Mat. 14. 29. on the Sabbath day where there was great Company and answerably great Cheer probable it is it was a marriage feast Luk. 14. 1. He did not allow of the feast nor of the usage or manners of the guests there nor of our feastings on the Lords day but there he took the season to do good and to correct the ill and being Lord of time and Master of the means and end could remove as pleased him whatever hindered all this which the best Minister in the world is not able to doe which we take to be considerable at this point Secondly we should say granting this that all advantages are to be taken for doing good That as Master Burroughs an excellent preacher in his days saith A Sermon may be preached on that day and another on the following day it being a time of leisure a vacant idle time which no time should be the least minute whereof is too much to give to idleness or sin which is all one the one is the mother the other the daughter his meaning i● A good Minister should take all the advantages to doe good why then take the season give the people their expectation a Sermon on this day so we may do and do well too as he may choose his Text and handle it before the people which will be sure enough if he be a good Minister and a Godly man too to throw out the observation of this day their super●●itions her in and their heathenish customes all that time along which wil not be a good Sermon in the peopl●s eares But if this Sermon be for the holding up of that day the greater the concourse of people shall be the more hurt and mischiese he will do by his Sermon It is the word of institution from the Lord that makes the day holy And the words which the Minister speaks to the people must have a word from God for it else no word of blessing can be expected from the Lord upon it Gods word of blessing goeth along wi●h his word of institution So now we have done with the first undertaking to justifie our Lords pract●se